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Arm Knitting: How to Make a 30-Minute Infinity Scarf and Other Great Projects

Mary Beth Temple - Fox Chapel Publishing
Format: Book

Theres a new craze sweeping the knitting world. Arm knitting is the fun way to make a gorgeous, chunky-knit scarf in only 30 minutes, using your arms instead of knitting needles. Why not try it out? This book makes it so easy to whip up simple and stylish scarves, cowls, wraps, and capes....
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Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World

Clara Parkes - STC Craft
Format: Print book

Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world. Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite readers and devoted...
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Artful Christmas: 30 Elegant Craft Projects

Susan Wasinger - Lark Crafts

Celebrate a merry Christmas in an artfully decorated home! Crafters will feel the joy as they make 30 elegant yet incredibly easy projects out of the most affordable and accessible materials. Deck the halls with a lacy air-dried clay wreath, a stamped muslin bag Advent calendar, festive...
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Hand Sewing: A Journey to Unplug, Slow Down & Learn Something Old; Hand Piecing, Quilting, Appliqu & English Paper Piecing in One Gorgeous Quilt

Becky Goldsmith - C&T Publishing / Stash Books
Format: Paperback

Embrace and enjoy sewing by hand Make sewing by hand your next creative accomplishment! Embrace the chance to unwind and enjoy the process of creating hand made quilt blocks with Becky Goldsmith's step-by-step instructions. Start at the beginning and learn how to appliqu, quilt, and paper...
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What's Wrong With My Fruit Garden?: 100% Organic Solutions for Berries, Trees, Nuts, Vines, and Tropicals

David Deardorff - Timber Press
Format: Paperback

It’s the question most commonly heard in every garden: what’s wrong with my…? And with the bestselling What’s Wrong With My Plant? and What’s Wrong With My Vegetable Garden?, we’ve answered it for flower borders, perennial gardens, and vegetable...
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The Plant Lover's Guide to Snowdrops

Naomi Slade - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Snowdrops have a delicate, quiet beauty. Their white bell-shaped petals are striking alone and in a swath, and they are a harbinger of spring. The Plant Lover’s Guide to Snowdrops is the first book to make this group of bulbs accessible to the home gardener. It features profiles of 60 hybrids,...
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Graphic Clay: Ceramic Surfaces & Printed Image Transfer Techniques

Jason Bige Burnett - Lark Crafts
Format: Hardcover

For studio artists, production potters, students, educators, and hobbyists who love working with clay, this project-driven guide is an unmatched teaching tool and a fount of information and inspiration. Focusing on various surface processes, and encompassing skills ranging from letterpress...
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The Gardener's Garden

Madison Cox - Phaidon
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate garden book - both a collection of gardens from around the world and a resource for those seeking inspiration on garden design and planting. Featuring over 250 permanent gardens by leading garden designers, horticulturalists and landscape architects, from the 14th century to the present...
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I Am Not a Cereal Box: 10 Exciting Things to Make with Cereal Boxes

Carlton Publishing Group - B.E.S. Publishing
Format: Paperback

Take your craft projects to a whole new level with this ingenious series that turns recycling into an art form! From a robot and aquarium to a teddy bear car/hot rod or puppet theater, the cereal box projects in this book are amazing fun for girls and boys. Each craft comes with photographic...
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Harborless

CINDY HUNTER MORGAN - Wayne State University Press
Format: Paperback

Harborless, a collection of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks, is part history and part reinvention. The poems explore tragic wrecks in rivers and lakes, finding and forming artistic meaning from destruction and death. Each poem begins in a real, historical moment that Cindy Hunter...
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